{"id":5547,"date":"2007-05-28T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/enough-whales-already.html"},"modified":"2007-05-28T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T18:00:09","slug":"enough-whales-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/science\/enough-whales-already.html","title":{"rendered":"Enough Whales Already"},"content":{"rendered":"
Let me start this post by saying there is probably few people who love animals as much as me. But I am more a couch potato animal lover. I don’t have a house filled with cats and dogs but rather I can sit for hours watching documentaries about life in Africa, Australia or anywhere there are animals.<\/div>\n
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Having said that can someone explain to me how two whales have received more press than the war in Afghanistan? In the last week every excruciating detail of a pair of whales who took a wrong turn in California has been analyzed and discussed in excess.<\/div>\n
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I am sure if I did a search there is a website somewhere dedicated to the bowel movements of these two mammoth creatures. There is likely also a museum being built in their honor and countless other ornaments… T-shirts, mugs, etc.<\/div>\n
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All this while other parts of the world are still killing and eating these animals. To me the human interest aspect died off after the first day but either I am in the minority or the media has it wrong.<\/div>\n
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As I did a search for stories on the topic surprisingly Bloomberg<\/a> came up as the first hit. Does this story have financial implications? Does the average Bloomberg reader have a yacht and this story may appeal to them as the whales were struck by a boat? Who knows?<\/div>\n
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But rather than add any more fuel to this story I say let’s just boycott stories about these two whales unless they do something well newsworthy. Taking a left instead of a right to me doesn’t seem like world news.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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